{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/14",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation—\n(a) for the purposes of all regulations other than regulation 4 on 17th February 2009; and\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 4—\n(i) paragraph (4), and paragraphs (1) and (5), so far as they relate to that paragraph, on 17th February 2009; and\n(ii) paragraphs (2) and (3), and paragraphs (1) and (5), so far as they are not already in operation, on 10th September 2009.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 542, relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 383, S.R. 1998 No. 379, S.R 1999 No. 358, S.R 2000 No. 297, S.R 2001 No. 402, S.R 2002 No. 383, S.R 2003 No. 64, S.R. 2003 No. 183, S.R 2007 No. 111 and S.R 2007 No. 317 and S.R. 2008 No. 418"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/14/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:33.609934+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}